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PIETER HUGO – SOLUS VOL. 1

“My work is about the notion of being an outsider: I feel I inhabit this space myself and I embrace this awareness as a way to engage with the people I photograph. I almost always work by announcing myself at the outset; I look, and I am equally looked at. When making a portrait there is a brief moment in which cynicism disappears. There is beauty in being held in the gaze of another.”

(Pieter Hugo)

SOLUS VOL. 1, Pieter Hugo’s latest series of portraits, focuses on young people whom he met while working with New York model agency Midland. At the agency’s office, …